"Oh, I shouldn't think so. Dale wouldn't like that."
"Depends how it's done," observed Sir Harry. "Don't you ever blow him up?"
"Of course not. I'm much too—I look up to him too much."
They were interrupted by the Colonel's voice. He was saying, with much energy:
"Ability we don't expect in a Government office, but honesty one might hope for."
"Just what Hodge used to say of old Pratt," said Mrs. Hodge.
"I beg pardon?" said the Colonel.
"Pratt was his manager, you know—my husband's."
"Oh, yes, of course."
"Nellie, you remember your father throwing down that two pound ten on the table, and saying, 'Well, I'm——'"